Preterm birth significantly impacts on neonatal
morbidity and mortality and is apparently increasing worldwide.
Several studies have attempted to define a causative role
for periodontal disease in adverse pregnancy ...

Besides genes that are homologous to proteins found in other coronaviruses, the severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus genome also contains nine other potential open reading frames. Previously, we have
characterized ...

The genome of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus encodes for eight accessory viral proteins with no known homologues in other
coronaviruses. One of these is the 3b protein, which is encoded by the second ...

INTRODUCTION: The African continent has the highest burden of HIV infection, accounting for approximately 65% of new infections globally. Oral candidiasis is a major cause of increased morbidity in HIV-infected individuals ...

More than 20 million infants in the world (15.5% of all births) are born with low birth weight. Ninety-five
percent of them are in developing countries. The objective of this study was to examine different factors
which ...

A respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus, termed the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), was first reported in China in late 2002. The subsequent efficient human-to-human transmission of ...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) 7a is an accessory protein with no known homologues. In this study, we
report the interaction of a SARS-CoV 7a and small glutamine-rich tetratricopeptide repeat-containing ...

The treatment of invasive candidiasis and other Candida infections with the appropriate antifungal agent is assisted by the identification of Candida isolates to the species level. Rapid and accurate methods of differentiation ...

Even though coronavirus infection of humans is not normally associated with severe diseases, the identification
of the coronavirus responsible for the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome showed that highly ...

RNA helicases of the DEAD (Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp)-box family of
proteins are involved in many aspects of RNA metabolism from
transcription to RNA decay, but most of them have also been
shown to be multifunctional. The DEAD-box ...